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Winehouse blames ‘devil’ for drug habit

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

London, Oct 16 (IANS) Troubled British singer Amy Winehouse seemed to have lost it at a recording studio and blamed the devil for her drug habit.



$2 egg-beater could save thousands of lives in developing countries

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) Plastic tubing taped to a hand-held egg-beater could save thousands of lives in developing countries.



Panama Canal earns record $2 bn in 2008

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Panama City, Oct 16 (IANS) The Panama Canal linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, one of the busiest man-made waterways, has earned a record $2 billion in revenues during the fiscal year 2008, Spain’s EFE news agency reported Thursday.



A new coo, but hybrid doves still find mates

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Washington, Oct 16 (IANS) Hybrids formed out of a union of different animal species are often infertile or die when still in the womb. A mule, for example, cannot reproduce. A sheep-goat hybrid, the result of a cross between a sheep and a goat, is usually stillborn.



Mice show women can handle stress better

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: Health, World

Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) Female mice engineered without a neurotransmitter in the lab, known to lower anxiety levels, were less stressed than their similarly configured male counterparts.



Mice show women can handle stress better

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) Female mice engineered without a neurotransmitter in the lab, known to lower anxiety levels, were less stressed than their similarly configured male counterparts.



Mice show women can handle stress better

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) Female mice engineered without a neurotransmitter in the lab, known to lower anxiety levels, were less stressed than their similarly configured male counterparts.



Slight rise in temperature could halve kangaroo population

Oct 16th, 2008 | By Sindh Today | Category: World

Sydney, Oct 16 (IANS) An increase in daily temperature of only two degrees Celsius could wipe out large numbers of kangaroos in Australia, according to a new study.